tabs vs. spaces in source code

From:

Graham Percival

Subject:

tabs vs. spaces in source code

Date:

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:30:30 -0700

User-agent:

Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:15:31PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
> Thanks, Neil. My editor does confusing things with tabs.
> I hate them. Who would object if I just started running
> tabs->spaces on the source docs? I think we should have
> a strict no-tabs rule. And I'm in good company:
>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-04/msg00103.html
If the programmers, particularly Han-Wen (who appears to already
agree with this) decide to make it a standard, fine. This should
also be mentioned in the CG, just like all the doc policy items.
Cheers,
- Graham